The Love Bomb and Other Musical Pieces

Front Row (BBC Radio 4) -- 6 May 2003

James Fenton discusses The Love Bomb with Mark Lawson. Visit the Radio 4 website to listen to the conversation (6 m, 41 s).

The Leonard Lopate Show (WNYC Radio) -- 1 November 2004

Charles Wuorinen (Composer) and James Fenton (Librettist) discuss the re-imagining of Salman Rushdie's Haroun and the Sea of Stories as a children’s opera. Visit the WNYC website to listen to their conversation (19 m, 10 s).

Selected Articles & Essays

'Settling Old Scores.' The Guardian (11 October 2003): 24.

'The Singer Not the Song.' The Guardian (15 November 2003): 24.

'Theatre in the Rough.' The Guardian (24 January 2004): 24.

'The Hoot of the Frozen Owl.' The Guardian (22 January 2005): 24 [On Barber and Puccini].

'For Crying Out Loud.' The Guardian (5 February 2005) [On the art of voice projection].

'Songs for Seducers.' The Guardian (5 March 2005): 24 [On words and music in Debussy].

'Song of La Mancha.' The Guardian (30 April 2005).

'A Musical Journey.' The Guardian (30 August 2003): 20 [On wordless singing].

'The Play's the Thing.' The Guardian (23 July 2005) [Concerning the revival of the opera The Mines of Sulphur, by Sir Richard Rodney Bennett].

'No Song Without Words.' Times Literary Supplement (14 October 2005): 14 [The troubled relationship between librettists and composers].

'The Sadist and the Stutterer.' The Guardian (2 December 2005) [On Herman Melville's unfinished novella Billy Budd being turned into a homoerotic opera].

'The Food of Love', The Guardian, 29 September 2007 [On Daniel J Levitin's This Is Your Brain On Music].